SIDELINES: Journey to the center of sports haiku

It was Patriots Day, 2003, maybe 2004. I was scheduled to cover a high school baseball game, but it poured. We needed something local to run in the sports section. Everything local had been washed away. I remember Ben Sturtevant, the editor on the desk that day, asked if I had anything. A column would be fine.

I can’t recall the exact year I made sports haiku a spring tradition, like the return of mosquitoes, icy rain and mud, but here it is, the 2016 edition. The sports world — particularly the New England sports world — has given me plenty of topics to cover this year.

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